1. Marlow learns that the manager and his uncle dislike and are jealous of Mr. Kurtz. They don't understand him, and they don't want him to become a manager and take power away from them.
2. The uncle is gesturing towards the wilderness, the "heart of darkness", and he thinks maybe it will kill Mr. Kurtz.
3. Marlow is amazed by the cannibal crew's restraint because they haven't eaten any of the white men on board the steamboat even though its been many months, and they outnumber the white men thirty to five.
